England tour: India men and women teams arrive in Mumbai, will quarantine

Indian men’s and women’s cricket team arrived in Mumbai for 2-week quarantine before they leave for the England tour. Indian men’s tour will start after the World Test Championship final against New Zealand. The WTC starts from June 18. Indian men’s team will play a six-match Test series against England. Indian Women’s team, on the other hand, will play one Test and three ODIs and T20Is in England. 

First stop, Mumbai ?#TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/Dieotl3GrF

— BCCI (@BCCI) May 19, 2021

BCCI on Wednesday shared a post on Twitter with the caption,”First stop, Mumbai #TeamIndia.” They photos of Washington Sundar, Mayank Agarwal, R Ashwin, Mithali Raj and Mohammed Siraj.

England tour: Which player will board flight from where

These flight arranged by BCCI were from Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai. They only had players who stay in the state/city or nearby. The 24-member squad including standby players will have to board commercial flights to reach Mumbai.

Players based out of Mumbai will get extra five days at home before they join the bio-bubble. Players and staff have been asked to isolate themselves during that period. Regular COVID-19 testing will be done on them and their family members. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Jasprit Bumrah, and Shardul Thakur are all based in Mumbai now and will join the bubble on May 24. The chartered plane from Hyderabad will only have Mohammed Siraj on boards. Hanuma Vihari is already in UK playing county cricket. The flight form Chennai had KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Ravichandran Ashwin and Washington Sundar.

The third chartered flight had Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Umesh Yadav, Avesh Khan and Abhimanyu Easwaran. Besides these players, Ishant Sharma took a drive to Delhi from Lucknow.

Players who are in closer proximity to Mumbai will travel by road and reach Mumbai. This list includes players like Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Arzan Nagraswala. Reports also suggest Jadeja took a flight, while BCCI arranged for a car for Arzan.